Imagine a city where new construction was halted because of the major constraints of the existing sere system. Faced with the alternative of potential overwhelming capital cost to replace the old collection system, the city elected a solution that would allow the collection system to continue to operate normally while huge amounts of material were removed from the system. Lost capacity was restored and economic growth restarted.

• 4,300’ of 27” sanitary sewer
• 17” of debris
• Constrained sewer system holding up all development in city
• No bypass required
• 13 days to complete
• 948,000 dry pounds (351 cubic yards) of debris permanently removed from system
• City development restarted, avoiding massive capital infusion